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Been there, heard that.... inductive reasoning

Hey Dan,

"In discussion with another engineer we agreed that the change in the phase of the current could only be from the magnetic field from the "slider"."

While your analysis is certainly 'Mesmerizing' what makes you think that slider contained permeable material a'tall? Now I don't know how to make an uber audiophile power cable, but I do have some expertise in making really crappy ones. Take a Unicable 14ga shielded powercord and compare it subjectively to the nominally equivalent Volex 17604. Hook them up to a preamp... The Unicable will be more vivid, bloated bass, very strange soundstaging, sorta like listening from the bottom of a steel drum with Joe Cocker. The Volex will sound 'neutral', not particularly extended in either bass or treble (I use Volexes not becuase I think them the best, but because I'm simply too cheap to spend money I think better spent elsewhere than on cords which I subjectively feel are better. Its a bang for the buck thing). And like you, I can identify blind the difference between the Volex and an Audience powercord 9 times out of 10. Sadly, I much prefer the Audience.
So what accounts for the diferences in percieved charateristics? Well, circumcision of the moulded connectors provided the answer. On the Volex the shield was spaced away from the 3 main conductors with cordage (pe fibers) and on the Unicable that shield was in intimate conformal contact with those 3 main conductors, no cordage. This is funny in that the cordage is there to provide resiliance against foot traffic, but IMO, the benefit is to minimize 'to ground' capacitance. Sorry, but I tossed the Unicable years prior to aquiring an LC meter.
Dunno if there is the same mechanism at work in both the Unicable and Van Evers....

Sooooo, you didn't like the way that powercord sounded with the geegaw was in the middle, screwed down tight?
A guy walks into his doctor's office and says -
"Doc, it really hurts when I shove my arm up my arse all the way to my shoulder!"
So the Doc says -
"Well, knowing you, you might prefer it if you just stopped at the elbow...."

You say inductance,
and I say capacitance,
Reactance, Reactance.
Reactance, Reactance.
Lets call the whole thing off....

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